Pete Seeger Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

  Pete Seeger

  Mistake, Would Be, Mouths

  "How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger". Book by David King Dunaway, 1981.

• You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

  Pete Seeger

  Mistake, Stupid, Made

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 3, 2008.

• A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.

  Pete Seeger

  Mistake, Vision, Benefits

  "How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger". Book by David King Dunaway, 1981.

• My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Song, Father

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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